Psychology

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Internet Sites

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The CSULB Library Catalog

COAST is used for finding Books, Government Documents, Video Recordings, Sound Recordings and Theses available at CSULB.

You can search for items using:

Keywords (i.e. the terms that best describe your topic)
Author (last name first, firs name)
Title
Subject (you must used the approved Library of Congress Subject Headings -- see a librarian for assistance)
Library of Congress Call Number
International Standard Book Number (ISBN)

You can also use COAST to search for specific journal titles. Only use this option if you have a citation to a specific article. If you are in the early stages of your research, and do NOT have a specific article you are trying to find begin by searching in the library's psychology databases.

Citing Sources

When writing a paper in psychology the rules of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
govern the manner in which references within the paper and bibliography are formatted.

The library has other resources that may be of help when it's time to format your papers:

There are also reputable web sites available to assist in formatting your bibliogrpahies in almost any style (e.g. APA, MLA, Chicago Manual, Turabian). To see the most current list of available web resources click here.

Article Databases

The library subscribes to dozens of article databases, each of which creates lists of articles contained in hundreds, sometimes thousands, of publications. These lists can be searched to find articles on almost any, and every, topic imaginable. Most of the databases contain at least some full-text (i.e. you can get the article from the database you are searching).

NOTE: If you are planning to access the subscription databases from a computer that is not on campus you may be required to complete an authentication login. For information on accessing the databases from off-campus click here.

Databases that psychology students have found useful include:

PsycArticles: Provides online, full-text access to the articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association and the Canadian Psychological Association.
PsycInfo: contains millions of citations from scholarly (i.e. peer-reviewed) journals. In addition to psychology and psychiatry, areas of study covered by the database include medicine, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law. The database has some full-text.
Mental Measurements Yearbook: use this database to get online, full-text access to thousands of reviews of questionnaires, surveys, and other test instruments.
ScienceDirect: a mostly full-text database that offers access to more than 1,800 journals. The database includes articles in many areas, including psychology. The articles are often highly technical, and focused on a very specific topic.
Wiley InterScience: a mostly full-text database that includes coverage in the fields of psychology, medicine, mathematics, business, and computer science. THe database offers a broad range of articles from general overviews to the highly-focused.

To see the complete list of databases recommended for psychology click here.

Frequently Cited Journals

The following is a partial list of frequently cited Psychology journals to which the library subscribes.

Title	Call Number (Print)	Full-text, Electronic Access
Behavioral and Brain Sciences	QP376 B41	Cambridge Journals Online
Psychological Bulletin	BF1 P75	PsycArticles
Psychological Review	BF1 P7	PsycArticles
Trends in Cognitive Sciences	N/A	PsycArticles
Psychological Inquiry	BR1 P675	PsycArticles
American Psychologist	BF1 A55	PsycArticles
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General	BF1 J613	PsycArticles
Cognition	BF311 C64	ScienceDirect
Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry	RJ499 A5	N/A
Journal of Abnormal Psychology	RC321 J7	PsycArticles
Psychology and Aging	BF725 .55 A35 P68	PsycArticles
Health Psychology	R726 .5 H434	PsycArticles
Developmental Psychology	BF699 D46	PsycArticles
Child Development	HQ750 A1 C45	Academic Search Complete

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Internet Sites

These Internet sites may be of particular interest to students and faculty in PSYCHOLOGY.

AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
http://www.apa.org/
The APA homepage will lead users to APA Monitor and other very useful psychology links.

CLASSICS IN THE HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY
http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/
This site contains the full text of historical psychology articles and papers which are no longer protected under copyright. An excellent source for the study of psychology history.

PSYCHOLOGY EXPERIMENTS ON THE INTERNET
http://psych.fullerton.edu/mbirnbaum/web/IntroWeb.htm#people
Provides links to sites where the internet is being used to conduct scholarly research in psychology.

PSYCHOLOGY IN THE NEWS
http://www.psycport.com/
Provided by the American Psychological Association, this site provides links to articles in the press regarding psychology and the study of psychology.

PSYCHOLOGY SELF-HELP RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET
http://www.psywww.com/resource/selfhelp.htm
" These pages . . . contain links to non-commercial sites providing information and help about specific disorders related to psychology. "

PSYCHOLOGY WORLD WIDE WEB VIRTUAL LIBRARY
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/psi/
" The Psychology Virtual Library keeps track of online information as part of The World Wide Web Virtual Library. Sites are inspected and evaluated for their adequacy as information sources before they are linked from here."

SOSIG: Psychology
http://www.sosig.ac.uk/roads/subject-listing/World-cat/psych.html
This is an index to Internet resources relevant to research in all areas of psychology. The creators of this site are based in the UK so there is a slight geographical slant but still contains top quality information.

SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY NETWORK
http://www.socialpsychology.org This pathfinder, hosted by Weslyan University, includes links to a wide array of sites of interest to students and professionals alike. The site provides links to online research sources.

PRINTED REFERENCE RESOURCES

These titles are essential resources for the study of PSYCHOLOGY.
Items with REF preceding the call number will be found in Reference on the 2nd floor of the Library.

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR
REF BF31 E5 1994

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PSYCHOLOGY
BF31 .E52 2000

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PSYCHOTHERAPY
RC475.7 .H47 2002

MENTAL MEASUREMENTS YEARBOOK
REF BF431 B8
This source will lead users to information on standardized tests for psychology, education and other related fields.

PUBLICATION MANUAL OF THE AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
REF BF76.7 P83 2001
Several other copies of this style manual for writing papers and manuscripts are located in the Reserve Book room at this same call number.

TESTS IN PRINT REF BF431 .B83 Another source for finding out information on standardized tests for psychology, education and other related fields.

PSYCINFO THESAURUS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL INDEX TERMS
REF BF31 T49 2001
This source can be used in conjunction with PsycInfo in order to find specific search descriptors.

Related CSULB Academic Home Pages

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
/depts/biology/

EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY, ADMINISTRATION AND COUNSELING
http://www.edpac.csulb.edu

PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT
/~psych/

Content maintained by Joseph Aubele, Psychology Librarian